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THE son of a Midlands State University worker, who committed suicide by hanging last week over alleged physical and verbal abuse by his wife, has claimed that his father was co-habiting with a woman in Zvishavane suspected to be a student. It is alleged the late Themba Manjoro could not stomach abuse by his wife who would sometimes not give him money and food leading to him cohabiting with a 26-year-old woman in Zvishavane.
On the fateful day, Manjoro is said to have been confronted by his wife over the matter after he came home from Zvishavane MSU Campus where he was working as a security officer.
Manjoro’s son Batwell, however, said his father had abandoned the family and was cohabiting with a young woman in Zvishavane, adding that he had stopped visiting the family only to come home the day he committed suicide.
He said Manjoro was the one who was abusive and was neglecting the family leaving his mother to single handedly fend for his siblings. Batwell stormed Sunday News offices in Gweru visibly angry, threatened this reporter with unspecified action alleging that the facts of the story alleging that his mother was abusing his father were wrong.
“What you people do is very wrong. My mother is the victim here. My father had long abandoned the family and started cohabiting with a 26-year-old woman who is even younger than us. Now you wrote that my father was being abused yet he is the one who abandoned the family when he was deployed to Zvishavane last year.
“He never used to visit. He only came home the day he committed suicide,” said Batwell.
Manjoro committed suicide by hanging on a tree in a nearby bush near Senga Area Two high density suburb. He was discovered on Saturday morning.
It is alleged that Manjoro had a heated argument with his wife as the two were said to have a long standing dispute resulting in him calling his son informing him that he had decided to take his own life.
Bongani Ndlovu